DePuy - Staff Engineer Johnson & Johnson Employee Review

2.0
Mar 1, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Good response time from Warsaw Fire Department during drills Clean facility Excellent soup in the cafeteria! Walkways are kept salted during winter

Cons

At DePuy in Warsaw, many of the managers, but not all, simply do not care about their employees well-being. Indeed, the former are more concerned with maintenance of a high standard of living (including the essential stay-at-home spouse) in this low-cost region. Considerable overtime required to meet deadlines for overaccelerated projects. The company makes liberal use of contractor and temp employees, but no real effort is made to increase permanent employee headcount. The performance rating scale is highly subjective and ranges from 1-9: 1-3 (you're leaving soon), 4-6 (you're working hard), 7-8 (you're wearing knee pads), 9 is off limits.

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